Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared a cardinal loyalty assumption.

Evidence

Despite inconsistencies between the two charges of submissiveness to tyranny and abandonment to discontent, anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism agreed in a cardinal assumption: the European’s disloyalty strikes directly at republican freedom. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 44

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘enemy’ category tolerates mutually contradictory charges (submissive AND rebellious) — evidence that the enemy is manufactured to fit the threat frame, resonating with the reader’s theme of constructed enemies. — connects to: Anti-Catholic nativists framed parochial schools as threats to national loyalty — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 303; Anti-Catholicism became nativist only when Catholics seemed foreign agents.; Anti-Catholic and anti-radical nativism shared one core assumption of immigrant disloyalty (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Catholic nativists framed parochial schools as threats to national loyalty #corroborates (0.90) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 303
• Anti-Catholicism became nativist only when Catholics seemed foreign agents. #expands (0.85)